[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2319]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             SCARE TACTICS

  (Mr. CUNNINGHAM asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I am tired of the scare tactics the 
Democrats are using. I legislated and helped write the school nutrition 
block grants. We had Governors that came before us and the welfare 
system has failed. I took and separated the school breakfast and school 
lunch program out of the welfare grants with our contract. I also 
separated Women, Infants and Children and increased them by 4\1/2\ 
percent, increased them a billion and one-half dollars, yet the 
Democrats are saying we cut the program. What we did is limit the 
growth to 4\1/2\ percent from 5.2 percent. We did not cut, we increased 
it a billion and one-half dollars.
  What we did cut on this side of the aisle is big Government 
bureaucracy rules and regulations and made it cheaper to support those 
programs, and what they do not want to happen is to lose their little 
fiefdoms. That is what they are upset about. We support the children's 
nutrition program, and separated and increased the program. Even 80 
percent of the money that goes to WIC is more than under the old plan.


                          ____________________